In the Sky-gardenLockwood, Brooks,, 1877 - 217 pages |
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absinthe Alice Animated Nature asked Joy beautiful Bobby Copernicus brass bull-fight Caleb Cox called Capt château church color comet constellation courser Cousin Myrtle crab daughter Dick dollars door dress earth eclipsed Edward the Confessor exclaimed eyes Fadrique Father Zenobe Fifine flowers Floy garden Gaston ghosts goat gold Golden Fleece grandfather Grandma guineas hair hall Halley's Comet Harold heart Helen Earlewinne heliotypes Hepsy Josephine Joy's knew lady landlord light little girl live look Major Makinoff Miss Dibbs Miss Dibbs's moon Mustruf never night parallax Paris Pleiad Praise queer replied Puck ride rugs Sallie scorpiums seemed seen shining Sky-Garden sleep Starboard stars story strange sure tell thing thought Toison d'Or told transit of Venus Turcomans Uncle Briar walked White Lion window wish wonder young zodiac Zuleika Zuleika's mother
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Page 173 - Save base authority from others' books. These earthly godfathers of heaven's lights, That give a name to every fixed star, Have no more profit of their shining nights Than those that walk and wot not what they are.
Page 183 - THE night is come, but not too soon ; And sinking silently, All silently, the little moon Drops down behind the sky. There is no light in earth or heaven, But the cold light of stars ; And the first watch of night is given To the red planet Mars.
Page 106 - My good blade carves the casques of men, My tough lance thrusteth sure, My strength is as the strength of ten, Because my heart is pure.
Page 184 - And thou, too, whosoe'er thou art, That readest this brief psalm, As one by one thy hopes depart, Be resolute and calm. O fear not in a world like this, And thou shalt know ere long, Know how sublime a thing it is To suffer and be strong.
Page 186 - And thou shalt bathe thee in the stream That rolls its whitening foam aboon, And ride upon the lightning's gleam, And dance upon the orbed moon! We'll...
Page 21 - The Ram, the Bull, the heavenly Twins, And next the Crab the Lion shines, The Virgin and the Scales ; The Scorpion, Archer, and He-goat, The Man that holds the watering-pot, And Fish with glittering tails.
Page 135 - Tis better to sing than grieve. Weave, brothers, weave ! weave and bid The colours of sunset glow ; Let grace in each gliding thread be hid, Let beauty about ye blow : Let your skein be long, and your silk be fine, And your hands both firm and sure ; And time nor chance shall your work untwine, But all like a truth endure.
Page 175 - That day, as other solemn days, they spent In song and dance about the sacred hill ; Mystical dance, which yonder starry sphere Of planets, and of...
Page 177 - Star light, star bright, First star I seen tonight. I wish I may, I wish I might Have the wish I wish tonight.
Page 186 - We'll sit within the Pleiad ring, We'll rest on Orion's starry belt, And I will bid my sylphs to sing The song that makes the dew-mist melt ; Their harps are of the umber shade That hides the blush of waking day, And every gleamy string is made Of silvery moonshine's lengthened ray ; And thou...